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- From: mincy@think.com (Jeffrey Mincy)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Banner Fund International
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:49:38 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In article <1k6uh6INNrpf@hpfcbig.sde.hp.com> fritz@fc.sde.hp.com (Gary Fritz) writes:
- >Jeffrey Mincy (mincy@think.com) wrote:
- >: I hope you aren't seriously expecting 20% return per month. 20% per
- >: month means that your money goes up by a factor of 9 each year.
- >: The best mutual fund returns for 92 were in the 30-50% range.
-
- >I'm fully aware of that. This wasn't a mutual fund. This was a
- >somewhat shady-sounding "offshore trust". As such I consider it
- >extremely risky, and expect a superb return in exchange.
-
- >They actually talk about 300% or so return annually, but use
- >15% per MONTH in their sample projections.
-
- The point I'm trying to get at here is that stock mutual funds have
- a certain level of risk and the best funds returned 30-50% last year.
- Any investment projecting 300% annual returns is way out on the risk
- curve. If they were so sure about the 300% return why would they let
- you in on it? They are transferring their risk to you, which is good
- for them.
-
- Basically, a 300% annual projection strikes me as so far out as to be
- essentially bogus.
-
- On the other hand, I havent read a prospectus from banner. How exactly
- are they claiming that they can make such stellar returns?
- --
-
- -- jeff
- mincy@think.com
-